Harold J. Laski: “If his will is set by the will of others, he ceases to be master of himself.”

The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.

If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.